The Quality Desserts 2013 Toowoomba Model Train Exhibition is the largest two day model train exhibition outside the Brisbane metropolitan district and is being held at the Toowoomba Showgrounds on Saturday June the 1st from 9am to 5pm and Sunday June the 2nd from 9am to 4pm.
The exhibition features a large contingent of displays that covers all aspects of Model Railroading. There is also a Kids Korner where the young ones can be creative in different activities and a Kraft Korner just for the ladies.
Further details regarding the Quality Desserts 2013 Toowoomba Model Train Exhibition can be found on the Darling Downs Model Railway Club Inc. website www.ddmrc@ddmrc.com.au
Quality Desserts participation in this event allows the Darling Downs Model Railway Club the opportunity to present an extensive exhibition whilst retaining a family cost structure for patrons. Admission Charges: Adults $10.00, Pensioner/Tertiary Student $8.00 (subject to suitable ID) and pre-school and school age children FREE.
Submitted by:
Ted Freeman
Exhibition Coordinator/Secretary
Darling Downs Model Railway Club Inc
Toowoomba Says No to Violence in conjunction with Relationships Australia invites you to participate in an exciting and progressive ‘train the trainer’ program which will equip participants with skills to recognise and potentially intervene in violent personal interactions.
The intention is to produce a core of people with the ability to pass their skills to others and eventually create a network of people in workplaces, care facilities, schools, homes and recreation places who can help when help is needed. This is a bold step forward for the Toowoomba region, local people taking action on a local problem, and I encourage you to consider sending people to this course.
Submitted by: Tony Rehn Crime Prevention Officer Southern Region Queensland Police Service Ph 07 4631 6755 Fax 07 4615 3200 131444 Police link – the new number to report non urgent incidents Crimestoppers 1800 333 000
The May Meeting of the Toowoomba Prostate Cancer Support Group will be held on Tuesday 21st. at 5.30 for a 6pm start. The venue is the CCQ office, 137 Herries Street Toowoomba. RSVP: Christine Ward, 07 4690 5800
Guest Speaker: Claire Uwimana from the Toowoomba Branch of the Multicultural Development Association.
Claire will talk about the extremely important role that MDA employees and volunteers have in helping to settle refugees and migrants from different parts of the World into Toowoomba and across the Darling Downs and SWQ.
The TPCSG endeavours to help men diagnosed with PCa and their families across SW Qld., Darling Downs, Toowoomba, the South Burnett and Lockyer Valley.
There are Monthly meetings (3rd Tuesday of the Month) with guest speakers or round table informal discussions, plus a regular newsletter. Attendance at meetings is not a prerequisite of membership.
Talk About It, Share The Good, The Bad, The Ugly = Helping Yourself and Others + Less Stress!
The Toowoomba Prostate Cancer Support Group is affiliated to the PCFA and supported by CCQ.
Submitted By: David H Abrahams SG Convenor & PCFA Ambassador Toowoomba Prostate Cancer Support Group Office: +61 (0)7 4613 6974 Fax: +61 (0)7 4635 4137 Mob: +61 (0)407 927 060 E-m: david.abrahams@bigpond.com Skype: davidatzapcon
The Expo isn’t precisely about the NBN but rather the technology that it will drive – websites, facebook, YouTube, Twitter as well as all the hardware options available. However…… NBNCo will be there in force so if you’ve got an issue with connection or want to know when the NBN is coming your way, the friendly NBNCo team will be there to assist.
I’d really love it if you could drop in and say hello at any time during the day. It looks like being a really successful event.
Greg Johnson – Chief Executive Officer Toowoomba Chamber of Commerce & Industry 566 Ruthven Street, PO Box 3629, Toowoomba Village Fair Qld 4350 P: 07 4638 0400 | F: 07 4637 8198 | M: 0414 783 343
The Rangeville Space Pilots’ Club is a club of youngsters who meet weekly for fun activities and to enjoy science and hands-on stuff like craft, model-making, and even model aerospace rockets!
And of course in making rockets, they need to launch them. So, this Saturday 18th., under clear skies that’s what they’ll do…. and you the public are welcome to come and join them after 1:30pm to see and hear these rockets go. Countdown with us each time a rocket is launched into the wide blue yonder.
Some rockets are made by the Space Pilot boys but some also by their sisters and brothers, but each lovingly-crafted rocket is special. Even a dozen or so of the senior boys, the teenagers, will be launching the results of their design-and-build projects.! Maybe some of them dream that one day they will be in the Space Station singing and strumming on a guitar !
So, do come, join us and be part of this unique event . Bring a folding chair. Refreshments are available. There’s toilets onsite too. It’s all free! Thats all happening at the T.A.R.M.A.C model-aircraft field on the New England Highway and just 10km south of Toowoomba … go through Hodgsonvale and the field is on your right just past the Mill, The Outlook. See you there.
Favourable weather conditions characterised the first days of competition in the FKG Tour of Toowoomba, the third round of the 2013 National Road Race series – the only round to be staged in Queensland. Now in its fourth year in Toowoomba, the FKG Tour is firmly established on the local sporting calendar as well as the national cycling tour schedule.
Building on last year’s evolution to a proper four day event, the FKG Tour of Toowoomba from May 9th-12th features all four elements of traditional road racing – three gruelling road stages, the challenging Team Time Trial and an inner city Criterium around Queens Park, offering spectators the thrill of intense competition.
Thursday 9th May Stage 1 Highfields Village Shopping Centre’s 113km Road Race START 11am Community Cultural Centre, Oakey FINISH 1.30 -2pm approx. Highfields Village Shopping Centre Drapac’s William Walker won an up-hill bunch sprint to clinch the 113 kilometre road race from Oakey to Highfields ahead of Tasmania’s Ben Grenda (Team Polygon) and Brodie Talbot (Racing Kangaroos).
Friday 10th May Stage 2 New Hope Group 123km Road Race
START 11am Crow’s Nest Town Centre FINISH 2.30pm approx. Hilltop finish at TV Towers, Mt Mowbullan, Bunya Mountains Tasmania’s Nathan Earle (Huon Genesys) battled it out in a thrilling hill-top finish before winning a sprint to the line from Matthew Clarke (Charter Mason) while teammate Jack Haig rounded out the podium.
Saturday 11th May Stage 3 IJC Fabrications 27km Team Time Trial START 9.30am First team leaves from Ramsay Street, Greenmount FINISH 10.05am First team finishes. Final team due in at 10.35am Ramsay Street, Greenmount The time trial specialists of Huon-Genesys clinched victory by more than a minute to Drapac Cycling and Budget Forklifts. Huon-Genesys stopped the clock in the 27 kilometre time trial at 34 minutes 12 seconds making them the only team to post a sub 35 minute time. Drapac Cycling finished their effort in 35min 22sec while Budget Forklifts – a man down after noted climber Michael Cupitt pulled out of the tour due to a concussion – narrowly made the podium with 35min 34sec.
Stage 4 Stonestreet’s Coaches 113km Road Race
START 12.30pm Ramsay Street, Greenmount FINISH 3.10pm Criterum Circuit, Harvey Road, Glenvale Tasmanian Ben Grenda (Team Polygon) who showed his strength to win a sprint to the line on the Glenvale criterium course. Grenda broke away from the field within the final 500 metres, holding off a fast finishing Malcolm Rudolph (Drapac) and Neil Van der Ploeg (Search2Retain).
Sunday 12th May St Vincent’s Private Hospital Corporate (15km), School (15km) & Mothers Day (10km) Challenge Rides 6.30am – 7.15am Registration 7.30am – 7.40am 10-12 year olds (one lap, 2.5kms) 7.45am – 8.05am 13-15 year olds (two laps, 5kms)8.10am – 8.30am 16-19 year olds (three laps, 7.5kms 8.45am-9.25am Mothers Challenge (four laps, 10kms) 9.40am-10.10am Corporate Challenge (six laps, 15kms)
St Vincent’s Private Hospital Family Festival 10am-3pmLindsay Street Oval, Queens Park, Toowoomba
Market stalls, laser skirmish, live entertainment and kiddies corner (St Vincent’s Hospital is the charity of choice for the 2013 Tour of Toowoomba) Details from www.stvincents.org.au
Stage 5 Platinum Health Group 50km Criterium START 1.15pm Lindsay Street near Arthur Steet, Toowoomba FINISH 2.15pm approx. Lindsay Street Won by Search2Retain sprinter Neil Van der Ploeg in a bunch sprint ahead of stage four victor Ben Grenda (Polygon Australia) and Josh Taylor (GPM Wilson).
RESULTS by Courtesy of Cycling Australia
Nathan Earle celebrates victory on the podium (Mark Gunter photo)
Presentation Ceremony to follow the final Stage (5)
Presentations to the Stage Winner, Jersey Winners and Overall Winner of the 2013 FKG Tour of Toowoomba
Tasmania’s Nathan Earle (Huon Genesys) has claimed victory in the FKG Tour of Toowoomba, the third round in the Subaru National Road Series. Earle’s win makes it three from three for the Tasmanian based outfit who topped the general classification at both the Tour de Perth and Battle on the Border.
It’s pretty special to be able to come here and win,â€Â he said. Nathan Earle clinched the leaders jersey on stage two of the Darling Downs tour, winning a sprint to the line at the summit of Mount Mowbullan in the Bunya Mountains before the team cemented their lead with a solid performance in the team time trial on Saturday.
My highlight is definitely the win on the Bunya Mountains,†Earle said. But also the team time trial was pretty special, just to be a part of that and to dominate by more than a minute to the second place was awesome.â€
Earle, 24, took out the tour eight seconds ahead of teammate and current Subaru National Road Series leader Jack Haig while teammate Ben Dyball finished third overall, 16 seconds behind.
Round four in the men’s Subaru National Road Series now heads to Adelaide for the inaugural Jarvis Subaru Adelaide Tour on May 24. The tour will also be run in conjunction with the women’s NRS. The 2013 Subaru NRS will feature 17 individual events across Australia, including six combined men’s and women’s events, and a total of 77 days of racing.
